3 papers
cs.RO2026
P3: Probabilistic Policy Propagation for Stable VAE-Based Robot Learning
Liyun Yan, Jianming Ma, Yang Zhang +5
Variational Autoencoders are widely used to encode high-dimensional and noisy observations in robotics. However, their stochastic latent creates a mismatch with Proximal Policy Opt…
cs.RO2026
GeoAlign: Beyond Semantics with State-Guided Spatial Alignment in VLA Models
Yizhi Chen, Zhanxiang Cao, Xinyi Peng +14
Current Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models often optimize for semantic grounding, whereas executable manipulation requires geometry-aware spatial alignment and dynamic affordanc…
cs.RO2026
HierKick: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Guided Soccer Robot Control
Yizhi Chen, Zheng Zhang, Zhanxiang Cao +7
Controlling soccer robots involves multi-time-scale decision-making, which requires balancing long-term tactical planning and short-term motion execution. Traditional end-to-end re…